view from the present
view from the present
drmollytov
an extended meditation on presence
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(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist...
The title is a quote from a Calvin and Hobbes strip. I read it as a kid, and I've found many, many situations in which it applies. Today, for instance. I'm skimming through books on basic computer programming for teens, trying to find...
That's the title of a book I found on Project Gutenberg today: Good Things to Eat, As Suggested by Rufus - by Rufus Estes The title amused me, so I downloaded it. And the title may seem silly, but this book slaps. Turns out Rufus Estes...
You may or may not remember a couple posts ago when I (1) thought this list of ways to resist authoritarianism was just how people lived: ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life and (2) then had the...
Just got a note in my work inbox: There's a spread of Chick-fil-A in the break room, courtesy of the franchise that just opened its doors next to our district admin building. I cannot eat Chick-fil-A. I have celiac disease, and those...
I will grant you that "we have too many books to fit on shelves" is a good problem to have. BUT. It also means I am mega-weeding the fiction right now, which also requires me to remove every weeded book from the database by hand, which...
My grandmother loved Groundhog Day. She always felt it was a holiday that "didn't get enough love," so she made a huge deal of it. She sent flowers to all her friends and made a big dinner - which, of course, always ended with the family...
I swear (I assume) I'll get back to having Actual Thoughts soon. There's just a ton of reading about AI in education that is stuck in my head right now, trying to turn itself into...something. Meanwhile, this thread about cyberpunk food...
No, really, that's what it's called: Fruity Game I found it on F-Droid last night while seeing if anyone has made a version of Fruit Ninja that hasn't been thoroughly enshittified in the name of PROFIT$ yet. And I was going to blog about...
Today I installed Windows 10 on the household's newest laptop. Said laptop has to run Windows so we can run Pyware, but I refuse to live with the billionaire-spyware that Windows 11 has become. I wanted to install Windows 7, but too many...
Like many of my fellow Americans, I am currently buried under a lot of snow, ice, and freezing temperatures. I have been home since Wednesday afternoon, amusing myself during snow days. At some point, I thought it would be fun to write a...
A lot of unspoken assumptions underlie the whole "AI thing" right now. But I think the biggest is that LLMs think like we do. We jump to this conclusion almost immediately, because LLMs generate plausible-reading text. The LLM sounds...
My 2.3 devoted readers may remember how a deer totaled my 2009 Corolla, forcing me to purchase a replacement vehicle: welcome home, Car Car Car The replacement, a 2015 Prius, is working great, mostly. I'm never going back to a full gas...
Spending my work-adjacent time reading the Rochester Provocations, a series of eight statements about AI intended to provoke conversation about how schools respond to generative AI: the Rochester Provocations I feel provoked to converse....
You ever read one of those quotes that somehow doubles the size of the universe? This morning it was: “Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human...